"Changing the Conversation" is less about physical disabilities and visible traumas and more about the "other" finding room for an open conversation with the "normal." As a girl child who grew up amidst patriarchy, I have battled for all of my life with the constructs of beautiful or ugly, boy or girl, normal or abnormal, rich or poor, pink or blue… this world for me has always been divided in binaries.
I have grown up being conditioned to believe that the needs of my male counterparts always preceded mine. This sort of "beliefs-based marginalization of humans" is what this series tries to break away from and, instead, works towards the expansion of humanity. A world without exceptions. A human experience that moves away from binaries.
“I'VE NEVER BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED LIKE THIS BEFORE… WITH ALL OF MY SCARS, I MEAN”
“I've never been photographed like this before… with all of my scars, I mean,” Catrin told me. It left us both thinking of what the limit on scars is. How much can we see? Are we all becoming a part of the world where scars must look "pretty" too? Can we use them to remind ourselves that our lives are better? But not too much… so we can bear looking at them?
Catrin was returning from a Ski trip in the French Alps when the coach's brakes failed, and the crash happened. 96% of her body suffered third-degree burns, leaving her with a 1 in a 1000 chance of survival. Following three months in a coma, 200 surgical procedures, and 4 years of rehab, Catrin
